like overtown. virtually 100% black. 100% black owned businesses, and yet when this picture was taken in 1964, it was already mostly gone. this was a city block, left to right, up and done. making room for i-75. the chrysler freeway in detroit. totally destroyed paradise valley. the little bit that was left was unsustainable and quickly dec decayed. now, let me share an observation i've made with you that might be interesting. you know, as a historian, i'm sort of interested many what people know a lot about and what people haven't heard of. i've noticed a lot of people have heard of the riots of 1960s. there was a riot in detroit in 1967 that was the worst riot of the 20th century until the 1994 logs angle lolos angeles riots. 40-50 people were killed. lasted several days. what people don't seem to know is that it happened almost immediately after this happened. this is the chrysler freeway in detroit under construction. everything you see used to be part of paradise valley and here we see the riot

here we see a neighborhood of miami called overtown. and overtown was nicknamed the harlem of the south because all the businesses were black owned. the residences were all black. it was a thriving black community. i am using the past tense in showing you an old picture because this is overtown in the mid'60s. all right? there is nothing left. i mean, acres in every direction has been totally destroyed to make room for the southern end of interstate 95. this does not, to me, make a case for the interstate highway or cars in general having been a tool of civil rights. it is definitely true that without the car, they could not have successfully organized the montgomery bus boycott of 1955. but clearly the story is more complicated than that. and overtown is a case in point but you could look at almost any american city and reach the same conclusion. this is a sign that was carried around in the protests against these projects in american cities in the '60s. everybody has heard of the civil rights movement. not many people know about this

overtown is a case in point. you could look at almost any american city and reach the same conclusion. this is a sign that was carried around in the protests against these projects in american cities in the 1960s. not many people know about the aspect of it. here is detroit. loeft here we see a neighborhood called paradise valley. like overtown. virtually 100% black. 100% black-owned businesses. yet, when this picture was taken in 1964, it was already mostly gone. this was a city block left to right. up and down. it's making room for i-75. the chrysler freeway in detroit totally destroyed paradise valley. the little bit of it that was left was unsustainable and quickly decayed. let me share an observation that might be interesting. i notice a lot of people have heard about the riots of the 1960s. there was a riot in detroit in 1967 that was the worst riot in the 20th century until the 1994 los angeles riots. 40 to 50 people were killed. it lasted several days. what people don't seem to know is that it happened al

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i was there to winwood now called winwood and used to be overtown and used to be most hideous place in the world and way cooler than it is now. and -- you know, i've made gross generallyization so i'll say it. i think look at mountain view. look at palo alto. we're living in the era of our time. this is equivalent of florence, during time of leonardo and when you look around does it seem like a cull clur that invest in architecture or land, long standing notion of itself? no of course not. right, at the past or new york. every public building there. every school, hospital is named after rich douche bag who decided to have sins of soul or compete for social prestige. but nonetheless he funded this hospital. somehow i've never walk intd a google hospital and and exceptions both puntedded hospitals that's that they did that but in general notion of giving back is funding startup which is a way of giving back but not building library in every town like he did. you go around beautiful libraries you will ever see is carnegie libraries and that's what educated a whole generation and somehow h